Title from engraved title page

Imprint from typographic title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following (besides the foresaid crudities) no lesse flowing in the body of the booke, then the crudities themselves, two of rhetoricke and one of poesie ..

Signatures: pi1,2(=3E1) a⁸(a3+1(=3E2)) b⁸ ²b⁴ c-g⁸ h-l⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸(D1+1,2,3 signed: D1, D2, [unsigned]) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E⁴(-3E1,2=pi2, a3+1)

According to Pforzheimer, [pi]2 (typographic title page) is 3E1, while a3+1 (woodcut badge of the Prince of Wales) is 3E2

"Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati" has separate dated title page; register is continuous

Numerous errors in pagination

Added, engraved title page (signed "Willian Hole"); head- and tailpieces; initials

Two leaves sometimes occur as cancels. Leaf a3 (cancelland) has no rule between the end of the verse under D and the letter E; a3 (cancel) has such a rule. Leaf 3A4 (cancelland) has line 12 of its recto beginning: Baron the Lord Lisle; 3A4 (cancel) has the same line beginning: and illustrious Robert Sidney Vicount Lisle

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

English short title catalogue

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in 19th-century green goatskin and papier tourniquet (as described by Wolfe in Marbled Papers). BPL gift bookplate of Joshua Bates, dated Jan. 28, 1856. BPL embossed stamp on pi1, pi2, c3, and D2. Blank sheet with laid-on engraving showing a knight on a horse surrounded by a decorative border that includes the date and title of the work bound-in before pi1. Corrections or other marginalia on the following leaves: b4, d2, f1v, f3, g3, g5, h2, B6, B8v, C1, C6v, C7, C8, D2, D3, D4, E1v, E3v, E8, G6v, I6v, M2, M5v, N2v, Q6v, R4, T1v, T8v, X7, Y3, Z1, 2I7, 2Q2v, 2S6, 2T3v, 2T6, 2T8, 2X3, 2Y4, 2Y5, 2Y6, and 3B6v. Many, if not all of corrections appear to be in the author's hand. Early/contemporary inscriptions on versos of both title pages washed away. Ca. early-17th century autograph, reading, "Will: Trigge[?]" on 3E4 verso.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy contains front matter, to leaf c1, bound in the following order: pi1, pi2(=3E1) a⁸(-a4-8) ²b⁴(b4+'a3+1'(=3E2), a4-a8) b⁸. Leaf a3+1, which contains the badge of the Prince of Wales, is bound in reverse, such that the badge appears on the recto, while the verso is blank. In this copy, the following leaves are remargined, either in whole or in part: pi1, pi2, a1, a2, 3A3-3A6.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy displays the following typographical characteristics: a horizontal line is present between the "D" and "E" verses on a3. 3A4 has line 12 beginning with: "and illustrious Robert Sidney Vicount Lisle ...". The title on ²b1 has "Quinque-mestriall" and a single "this" in line 8. The end of the final line reads, "those weights." The epitaph on 2I3 (verso) begins "In disem grab ligend".

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is the first of two items bound together in a single volume titled "Coryats Crudities." This volume contains [1]: Coryats crudities / Thomas Coryate (1611) -- [2]: Thomas Coriate, traueller for the English vvits: greeting (18th century facsimile (ESTC T228561))

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